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Ambrose could say to his people—‘Non minus vos diligo, quos genui ex Evangelio, quam si suscepissem conjugio.’ De Offic. Lib. i. c. 5. The record of this faithful Pastor is of the same spirit—Jacere eum putes cum jacentibus; lachrymari cum lachrymantibus; gemere cum gementibus. Vir clementissimus in omnem formam se transformavit, ut homines diaboli faucibus ereptos Christo lucrifaceret. In the same spirit, the primitive Bishop Wilson remarks—‘He that considers himself as the Father of the flock, will not forget with what mildness, tenderness, and love, a Father treats his children.’ Stowell’s Life, p. 286.